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Michigan eye doctor Kenneth D. Pilon has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for hate crimes, including calling nine Starbucks locations and leaving nooses around Michigan parking lots and at a 7-Eleven, with notes that read, “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ t-shirt. Happy protesting!” Pilon's tactics were intended to terrorize the targeted victims solely because of their race.
Saginaw optometrist Kenneth Pilon has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for threatening to harm Black Lives Matter supporters in a series of rants he made over the phone to Starbucks employees. Pilon admitted to calling nine Starbucks stores in 2020 and telling those who answered his calls to relay this message to employees wearing BLM T-shirts: “The only good (N-word) is a dead (N-word).” He also left nooses at Kroger and Walmart parking lots in Saginaw and tucked one inside a beverage cooler at a 7-Eleven store with a handwritten note attached that read: “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ T-shirt. Happy protesting!'"
Kenneth D. Pilon, a retired optometrist from Michigan, has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison and a year of supervised release for leaving nooses and threatening notes around his community and making racist phone calls in the summer of 2020 to intimidate Black Lives Matter supporters. Pilon pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willfully intimidating and attempting to intimidate citizens from engaging in lawful speech and protests. He left five nooses across Saginaw, Mich., and made nine phone calls to Starbucks stores in Michigan in which he told the employees who answered to make racist slurs toward their colleagues who wore Black Lives Matter T-shirts.